art and draws: the sequel

tutorially thingy (1)

It's come to my attention that there's someone who doesn't know how to digital art (made in medibang btw)

First off, an uninteresting and unshaded picture

And, I know, I know, why are the the white parts of the eyes light gray? It's so the highlights can stand out more, of course! ( > ω> )

So, first up, how to color your line art

It's really simple so listen up: you can either
-turn on "protect alpha" on the layer your line art is on (which will only allow you to draw on everything that's already on the layer)
Or:
-create another layer above the line art layer and turn "clipping" on (it'll allow you to draw only on what's beneath it)

I used clipping on both of these so I could turn the fully colored line art off because I don't really liked it and only wanted to demonstrate ( >3>)

Well, onto the shading!!~

I mostly use the watercolor brush on this setting to shade in my fav color: lilac~
But you can, of course, use other colors to shade with and decide what you like best

This, of course, can already be considered done, and I would've left it like that, but I'm doing a tutorial so–

For the shading I used clipping so I can use the blending mode (when you change the blending mode of a layer it effects with how it interacts with the layers under it)

I only used the blending mode "multiply", and as you can see it turned the lilac dark and intense af
(You can also see that I used clipping and that right beside it is protect alpha)

Here I turned the opacity (self explanatory), which gave a softer and more calm look to it

Lmao I'll finish the second part on the weekend